Chit Chat
There is currently 1 person viewing this thread.
I have been saying for a while that Britain is far too dependent on imported goods food in particular.
I have said is what if a worldwide crisis threatened either the price or availability of these imported foods; it would leave us exposed because we have no contingency plan. I must admit a virus was not at the top of my potential disaster causes, I thought it would be either war or something to do with climate change.
What this crisis has shown us all is how vulnerable the worldwide supply chain is in real terms.
What Britain needs to become self sufficient and soon. We have renewable energy that will allow us to grow and farm in a way that was simply not feasible before
I have said is what if a worldwide crisis threatened either the price or availability of these imported foods; it would leave us exposed because we have no contingency plan. I must admit a virus was not at the top of my potential disaster causes, I thought it would be either war or something to do with climate change.
What this crisis has shown us all is how vulnerable the worldwide supply chain is in real terms.
What Britain needs to become self sufficient and soon. We have renewable energy that will allow us to grow and farm in a way that was simply not feasible before
sort by:
Show
per page
Replies: 59
|
By:
no panic if you keep buying
 |
|
By:
out of toilet paper & hands cleanser
wipe my @rse & start a new plague |
|
By:
planting carrots here as fast as I can go
|
|
By:
It's OK I've got a cupboard full of rice. Good old Anneka will hunt me down some food.
|
|
By:
Spoke to a mechanic today. He’s panic bought air filters! He says supply lines from China, Italy, Slovakia etc are all slowing.
|
|
By:
doris advisors and the Brexit loons think we can live entirely on imported food
|
|
By:
we can - lots of cans of apricots here
my grandmother still had them years after the war ended never gave up the habit of keeping tins in store but my laying off a garage full of beer and bully beef for brexit looks like paying off in a different way ho ho |
|
By:
Go on, then. Give up your job. Stop wasting your time on here, and go out and work on a farm instead. Christmas Day, Bank Holidays, every Saturday and Sunday, all through Cheltenham. Be on call 24/7. Be poor. Be self-sufficient in food.
Or might it make more sense to keep your job, stick with the punting and pay some poor sod in a country with better climate and poverty-level wages to do the work themselves? |
|
By:
nasty khant
|
|
By:
wassup smelly sock
|
|
By:
Shortage of paracetomol
EXPECTED  |
|
By:
I put food out for the local cats, it's like a foodbank, more and more come every day. Some have quite a lot of meat on them already.
|
|
By:
but skinned and dried will make a nice meal?
|
|
By:
Like Aubrey's midshipmen and their 'millers' fed on biscuit etc
|
|
By:
Macaroni says we have to become self-sufficient in food, where there's a will there's a way. I'm wondering where all that renewable energy that he speaks of might be, perhaps we can go carbon neutral already.
No millers around here, the cats scare them off. |
|
By:
Electric tractors. Combines powered by windmills. Nitrogen fertilizers without nitrogen. The imaginary list is endless.
|
|
By:
We could at least try eating foods in season.
(I realise that’s heretical..). |
|
By:
Tried that once getting a burger but the bull chased me out of the field
|
|
By:
pecker dun wishes death on remainers
what a horrile person I suppose he thinks its a joke I wonder what would happen if I said the same about other groups I don't think it would be take as a joke peckerdunne Joined: 26 Apr 12 Replies: 2915506 Mar 20 16:09 virus going to bury remainers |
|
By:
Went to the supermarket for my weekly shop . Place was banged and shelves empty . What is wrong with people ? Couldn't even get a tin of baked beans
|
|
By:
Just goes to show what a selfish "i'm all right Jack", society we've become.
|
|
By:
It will be the numpty average joe that does for the older community
I mean I've seen on other forums people actually saying "its only going to kill the old and they are nearly at the grave anyway" type comments, what a pathetic spineless bunch of wancers this country has become. |
|
By:
There was a bit of a panic the other year when it was rumoured that there would be a courgette shortage once we left the EU.
|
|
By:
Went to my local Tesco this morning and nothing looked different. There was even an introductory offer at a reduced price on a new "flavour" of a hand wash product! Central Somerset is probably a bit more laid back than London though. I do agree about food supplies as an ex farmer who sold up because it was not profitable in 2000. None of the 4 people who bought our land needs to make a profit from it. Home production of most food items falls every year. I do have 2 acres of grass that could be planted with vegetables if the worst happens but growing your own is more expensive than a supermarket if you value your own labour.
|
|
By:
yes i have heard people say they're still gonna carry on as normal as it only affects the very old so not at all bothered that they could spread the virus
 very selfish |
|
By:
SontaranStratagem, my daughter travels quite a lot-work and leisure- and has very elderly Grandparents whom she loves and visits weekly at least. I mentioned the danger of her infecting them and it has made her think about curtailing travel for the time being.
|
|
By:
My supermarket Morrison’s had a 2 for 1 offer on Bog Roll!
I only wanted one pack of nine but bought two packs and took the discount! Sums up the lack of leadership in this and most countries. Pathetic! Went on the Tube on Friday. Nobody wore latex gloves, one wore a mask. No hand sanitizer on any train station. None in any bar, none in my gym. No order to mass produce hand sanitiser and yet We can still fly to Italy and bring back the lurgy 20,000 passengers booked flights to Rome this weekend but did the FCO issue a no flight decree? Who has shares in Insurance Companies or Airlines! Pathetic lack of leadership and Government! On the plus side there is plenty of Andrew left at Morrisons |
|
By:
Andrex
|
|
By:
I am nearly 76 myself so probably vulnerable but the chance of catching it is about the same as backing all 28 winners at Cheltenham. Of course it is a serious illness but so is cancer which affects millions every year.
|
|
By:
No it’s not!
But less people dying of Corona than other flu atm I heard they have set up temporary morgue in Hyde Park. They do fear this could get out of hand and yet you can fly to Italy |
|
By:
Not much panic buying in the financial markets.
|
|
By:
"...... but the chance of catching it is about the same as backing all 28 winners at Cheltenham."
It seems the most risk you have of catching it if you are within about 3-foot of anyone who has got it ! And what makes this so scary anyone who has contracted the disease can start spreading it around before they develop symptoms. And also in the early stages someone could be spreading it although they might only be feeling a bit unwell. Seems to progress in stages, and then suddenly shoots up. Hour by hour this is getting worse. Very scary stuff. |
|
By:
Old people are the ones who should self isolate. People with jobs need to work unless you get paid for being off sick.
|
|
By:
Popped to Tesco Express at Brayton this morning, just for some vino, fruit, cheese, milk etc...
At the checkouts was a wall of 16 packs of Andrex. Interestingly, no displayed price, but I bought a pack anyway! Worryingly is the fact that, to my knowledge, it all comes from China, so I doubly washed my hands when back here! |
|
By:
For the past few years I've bought Andrex in bulk, via Amazon, 45 or 54 rolls. I felt a little guilty when purchasing my latest order this weekend.
|
|
By:
Well nobody can say you don’t give a sheite Astro!
|
|
By:
Bunzl, a British company that I own shares in is a very big producer of all use once products including loo and kitchen rolls but not sure where they make it. I did read because of the high volume, low value nature of the product, most of it is made in UK. Andrex is nearly all UK made
|
|
By:
|
|
By:
Just back from Lidl.
[ This image is no longer available. ] |